Friday, February 16, 2024

Lotus (VN - National flower of Vietnam): Blues' Piano 101 learning ~ WUaS Music School and Bill Larson (former organist and choral director at 1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsburgh) emails

 

Dear Bill, 

Long time, since I was singing to your piano playing in the UU Choir in 2006-2007 ... How are you? Back in Pittsburgh now, before heading west again I think this year to Stanford Law CodeX Fellowship and or to move World Univ & Sch back into a newly safe open Canyon 94516 in the SF Bay Area ... Happy Valentine's Day!

Do you know of any 
blues' piano teachers (online or on the ground) ... or Blues' piano players in the woodwork somehow (Black/Afro American or any color ... who might be a good laissez faire teacher) ... Suzuki method for the blues?: ) Some places around town where great Blues piano is happening - Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Mississippi Blues? 

Found this very helpful and a good launching pad -  
Blues Piano 101 (Beginner Piano Lesson)



And this is the direction I'd like to head in ... and by taking the next step ... 

Grateful Dead song Run Rudolph Run from '71 works with Kevin Castro's Blues 101 in some good ways - Great for its energy esp ...


GD Run Rudolph Run - 12 bar blues in G? 

Grateful Dead Live at Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on 1971-12-07 


Might you even be available to explore teaching this please possibly - (but I realize you play much classical and Church related music +)? 

Happy Valentine's day, Bill!

Best regards, Cheers, Friendly Quaker greetings, 
Scott


A real development in online music learning 
#BluesPiano101 (Beginner Piano Lesson)
#KevinCastroPianote 
#WUaSBluesPiano #WUaSBlues
w #GratefulDead









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Dear Bill, 

As a further followup in this email thread, and thinking-wise, I am appreciating that you might find the following most interesting music to play, teach etc ...

Bach: Complete Partitas played by Yuan Sheng 

which raises for me a related question, - how to get to fluency with playing any form of beautiful music  (beyond the 'practice' word, and this is a wiki subject or school too at World Univ - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Practicing_-_Playing_a_Musical_Instrument AND http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (from Yo Yo Ma, and Wynton Marsalis) - not yet for people in other countries per se, or in other languages) and potentially newly with information technology for learning and teaching in innovative ways ... (and regarding especially Castro's "Blues Piano 101"). For example, I've played 3 Bach Inventions (IV, VIII, and XIII, I think, for years, very enjoyably, ) ... but how to get to 'fluency' - of which you are 'very' - in playing these too > and possibly in thinking anew about playing and with the aid even of artificial intelligence and machine learning, beyond that which is embedded in Kevin Castro's Blues Piano 101 - https://youtu.be/jKhsacA76KU . Fluency in playing can come from playing, and playing music one is deeply drawn to, listening-wise, dancing-wise, cultural-wise, countercultural-wise and similar (and I'm a child of the 1960s in some of these regards as well).

In seeking to bring my Blues Piano keyboard playing to fluency, and regarding choosing pieces one likes to play, again http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm (and search on "(Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.)."), and with the Grateful Dead 1965-1979 mostly next, I found further these other 12 bar blues' tunes from the GD - 


What Grateful Dead tunes are 12 bar blues?

Which are in the key of G ?

Grateful Dead Play The Blues

Track Count 12
Total Length 1:37:39
1
Beat It On Down The Line Grateful Dead
03:19

2
Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead
05:42
3
Big Boss Man Grateful Dead
04:47 

4
Wang Dang Doodle Grateful Dead
05:44

5
Don't Ease Me In Grateful Dead
03:25

6
I'm A King Bee Grateful Dead
05:41

7
It Hurts Me Too Grateful Dead 
04:19
Grateful Dead w/ Duane Allman ☮ It Hurts Me Too, 1971 
https://youtu.be/WgPV9DFkQFs

8 ...

... from https://www.wolfgangs.com/playlists/1275627.html ... but which are in the key of G and how can information technology help in identifying keys of pieces too ? 
 

In some of these regards, I just texted my mother (Jane MacLeod) -

"Hi Ma, I just reached out yesterday to Bill Larson, organist and choir director in 2006-07 at 1st UU Church of Pgh for a Blues' Piano co-player for learning in the Pgh area or online ... any caveats about contacting him (whom I think is smart and good/Church oriented) ... re the 'Undercroft Opera' - https://rccpittsburgh.com/about-rcc/ourperformers/  🙂? How are you doing, Ma? Love, Scott "


So, Bill, - a more general question re your great piano and organ playing and choral music directing ... and regarding growing the MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch music school: How best to develop fluency in playing a musical instrument anew with information technologies? (Want to explore this thinking-wise and even teach this at WUaS, Bill?:) With the above in mind (ie Blues' keyboard playing, with the GD, and playing Bach inventions), can you think of any GREAT Youtube videos, or other web resources, that could help with someone seeking to develop fluency in playing a musical instrument in new ways (and I'm seeking to explore this personally as well) ... And can you share some new online instructive materials that would or could teach me to become a virtuosic piano player or Scottish Small Pipes' player (after creating 2 recent albums, in 2020 and 2022) ... or which you could use to help facilitate you becoming more virtuosic in your piano playing? 

One thing I appreciate about the (free! and easily accessible on the web with broadband) Kevin Castro Blues 101 video (in Youtube), and about playing with the Grateful Dead, or with Mississippi, Chicago and Delta Blues' players, is that there isn't the focusing on 'perfectionism' culturally ... there's room to make mistakes and they even can become part of the music .. .and there's space also for jamming, and improvising too e.g. in Blues' Rock and Roll  ... 

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions? Might you be available to teach me Blues' Keyboard, if only in one lesson ... and with your ideas in these regards, brainstorming-wise ... ?

(I may add some of this into the World Univ & Sch Monthly Business Meeting, loosely conducted in the manner of Friends/Quakers) which meets on Saturday, 3rd Saturdays, at noon ET presently ... and in growing the WUaS Music School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Music_School and the Blues' Piano wiki subject too - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Blues_Piano - and the JS Bach wiki subject as well - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach (for all instruments in all languages ever, each a wiki subject page or school for open teaching and learning) ... and in which you are welcome to participate ... )

The proactive wiki engagement with World Univ & Sch can lead to further teaching and learning at WUaS ... wanna teach at World Univ in the Music school, as WUaS begins to hire Bill? :)

Best regards, Scott 




PS
Seeking to develop a new form of music in some of these regards: Piobaireachd Rock Blues' Laments - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r (and will add a blog post or 2 about this here) - and in PLAYING with the Allman Bros with Jerry Garcia in 1973 at Cow Palace in SF ... and on my Scottish small pipes, writing sheet music for this with Google Gemini AI (now) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNAmXz8kc6I - where some tunes in the middle of this work with the Scottish Small PIpes' A chanter :)

PPS
Also seeking to elicit Loving Bliss neurophysiology further, with the on off switch of playing music that takes me in this direction ~ cascades of neural please 


Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions, Bill? :) Want to meet for a cuppa as well sometime soon-ish? 



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